Tenisha Warner gave an emotional tribute to her late husband, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, on what would have been their wedding ceremony anniversary by unveiling two initiatives geared toward uplifting kids and nurturing creativity.

On Thursday, Warner launched The Warner Family Foundation and River & Ember, each of which had been created in tribute to the Emmy-nominated actor, who died on July 20 whereas studying to surf in Costa Rica. He was 54.

“Today, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and officially opening The Warner Family Foundation,” Tenisha wrote on Instagram. “This is love, still moving. Still making. Still carrying us forward.”

The announcement got here with a 2017 wedding ceremony picture and a heartfelt message: “Thank you for holding us in so much love during this tender time,” she wrote. “Tomorrow marks our anniversary, and my heart is wide open.”

Warner, greatest identified for enjoying Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, drowned at Playa Cocles, a seaside on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. His sudden dying surprised many within the leisure world and left his household reeling.

Now, Tenisha and their daughter are channeling their grief into motion with a mission to assist kids and younger artists discover energy by storytelling and creativity.

“My husband believed in nurturing the inner light—not just in children, but in all of us,” she shared. “Through story and ritual, I hope to offer families what he gave us: a sense of being held, and a reason to keep tending to our light.”

The Warner Family Foundation will give attention to supporting younger creatives, although no particular applications have been detailed but. River & Ember, named symbolically, will even function a platform for households to interact in inventive expression and therapeutic.

Warner’s legacy stretches far past his sitcom fame. After The Cosby Show led to 1992, he directed episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Sesame Street, and launched 4 albums mixing spoken phrase and R&B.

Tenisha’s tribute closed with a poetic nod to the person she married seven years in the past: “To the river that carried us. To the Ember that never goes out.”

Warner died July 20 in Costa Rica.

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